The S&P500 Information Technology Sector GICS level 1 is up by a whopping 39% since last January. The first was the issue of visas and whether President Trump would crack down on some of the highly skilled workers needed in the tech industry from other countries. Second, Silicon Valley was initially fairly hostile to President Trump, and there was concern over some type of retribution.

Most investors are well aware of how fabulous tech stocks have been this year. As mentioned, the tech-heavy NASDAQ is up over 25%, while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index, or SOX, is up over 37% this ...

As has been widely documented , the technology sector saw its first real weakness of the year at the end of November. The Nasdaq 100 Index fell off nearly 3 percent from its highs, thought it has since ...

The technology sector, the largest sector weight in the S&P 500, has been getting taken to task in recent weeks. For example, the tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 Index is lower by 4.1 percent over the past month ...

The technology sector, the largest sector weight in the S&P 500, was hot. Until it wasn't. After climbing steadily throug the first month and change of 2017, the sector closed June down just about 5 percent ...

Political uncertainty, Fed policy, and earnings reports. With these major catalysts in mind, here's a list of leveraged ETFs that traders should be focused on this week. The first broad-based leveraged ...